Do you try and 'make up' for bad days...

I forget about it and move on. Otherwise it just turns into a binge/starve cycle in a lot of cases I have seen. No thanks! We are all going to slip up, but just have to look at the big picture

Had 4,000 calories saturday. Ahhhh i new week

Wow, this binge/starve cycle explains perfectly what happened to me last week. For about a month I'd been pretty consistently having a much larger deficit than is recommended "biggest loser" style (although not to that extreme lol). Last Friday I felt lethargic and then later in the day starving and lay around all day and ate WAY too much. I was 700 calories over maintenance which was 1700 more than I was supposed to eat. The next day I felt not that hungry and quite energetic so I went all out on exercise and only ate 600 calories...I recorded a record burn on my Bodymedia Fit of 4600...I thought I was "making up for it". Thats all well and good (well not really) but the next day guess what, bam, I was again lethargic and starving. I almost had another binge and went to the grocery store to buy something sinful but somehow I walked out with only lettuce and strawberries :ohwell: .

I am now upping my daily calories to my BMR and if I fall off again will not try to "make up for it" by eating below my BMR the next day, although I might up the exercise if feeling spunky. Thanks for the advice in this thread!

HI i work to a weekly average, so yes if have a day when i go over i will adjust the rest of my week accordingly. Seems to be working so far for me.

I really try to even out over the week, and when I've had an especially bad day, I'll add and extra workout within the three days following. I think it is important for me to be able to have an over day and know that I can make it up.

I don't have 'bad' days, just 'days' . I weigh once per week, I eat between 1000 - 1900 calories daily..some days less, some more It's not a conscious thing, just depends how I feel. If I'm sitting around doing nothing chances are I'm not feeling really hungry. I will carry forward calories over/under for a week and try to average it out but I don't stress if it doesn't . If anything I have a hard time eating enough rather than going over.

Honestly I have more important things to worry about than if I ate a few hundred calories over/under on one day..I went over by 1k a couple weeks ago and hit my biggest loss week since I started - and it was ToM also. As long as the scale is trending downwards over time and I feel good I don't stress about it.

I don't really look at this as "dieting" (as a verb)...I've made this a long term lifestyle change in RE to what I'm putting in my body and just happen to be at a caloric deficit at the moment to achieve a healthy weight. If I go over a particular day I just move on...it's just one day of many, many days.